Towards a Socially Intelligent ECA

Towards A More Natural and Intelligent Interface with Embodied Conversation Agent

Conversational agent also known as chatterbots are computer programs which are designed to converse like a human as much as their intelligent allows. In many ways, they are the embodiment of Turing's vision. The ability for computers to converse with human users using natural language would arguably increase their usefulness. Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial I...

AINI - Embodied Conversation Agent Applicable for Interactive Games

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general have advances this field in realizing the vision of a more humanoid interactive system with embodied conversation agent (ECA). This paper presented our development of the ECA called Artificial Intelligent Natural-language Identity or AINI. In this paper, we also present and discuss the use of such E...

Whistleblowing in the Wind Towards a Socially Situated Research Agenda: A Response to Recent Commentaries

User Attitude Towards an Embodied Conversational Agent: Effects of the Interaction Mode

We describe how the interaction mode with an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) affects the users’ perception of the agent and their behavior during interaction, and propose a method to recognize the social attitude of users towards the agent from their verbal behavior. A corpus of human-ECA dialogues was collected with a Wizard of Oz study in which the input mode of the user moves was varied ...

Towards the Development of a Socially-Informed, Process-Oriented Model of Research in Metadiscourse

Since the early development of interest in the interpersonal dimensions of academic communication in the 1980s, the analytic potentials of the concept of metadiscourse have motivated a large number of investigations. Although these analytic potentials have facilitated the study of diverse academic genres, there has always been a risk of detachment of textual analyses form the contextual origins...